Beef Mushroom Endive Taco Boats

Paleo Beef Mushroom Endive Taco Boats. This is a recipe for the Blend and Extend strategy – adding finely chopped mushrooms to ground beef to add more vegetables to your plate, extending portions and adding volume to meals. That works for me because I normally dice up a whack of veg and mix it into my GB.

I love tacos! And cooking ground beef always makes me think taco seasoning. I found a recipe for Paleo taco seasoning, and I think I might try making my own recipe some time, but for now I just used what I had in the cupboard (it had cornstarch in it. Call the Paleo Police!). And if you want to make your own, here‘s a recipe I found.

I have something to confess. This is the first time I’ve ever used endives (did you know that they are a member of the daisy family? Thanks Wikipedia!), but it was in my head when creating this recipe. I watched this video about them:

You don’t have to wash them??? Sweet. I dislike washing leafy stuff, cause then you have to shake or pat or spin them dry, but they’re never really dry are they? And are they really ever clean?

So I did not enjoy the pronunciation in that video, as I thought it was N-dive. But what Google learning resulted in was that she indeed was correct. And who would know better than the people at www.endive.com?

Anyway, to make this a little more summery I figured a nice fruit salsa would be great. I love this pineapple avocado salsa. It’s easy and delicious. That sweetness is nice with the salty mushroom-beef. Trust me. And the whole thing looks pretty darn cool. And one more great thing about this recipe: If you don’t eat all of the beef, it freezes really well in a Zip-lock freezer bag, which then thaw quickly when you need!

OK, before I let share the recipe, we need to take a look at something. I was at the store with a friend earlier this week and they were selling “square watermelon”. Oh, I forgot to mention the ridiculous aspects of this: $199 each, and they don’t taste any good since they are immature. Who is paying for these?

Not impressed.

Well, why stop at cubes? At least these heart ones are supposed to taste good.

So this same grocery store is selling “bling h2o”, a glammed up brand of bottled water. $5 for the plain bottle, $50 for the fancy bottles…. Money well spent, no? (That’s sarcasm for those of you who missed it!)

You can see the all the available bottles here (you’d think they would be able to afford a cooler website. I do like the elevator music though).

OK, back to today’s recipe: I decided to offer a lacto-paleo option today, because this one truly is great with cheese. I added olives for that yummy salty flavor for those of you who want/need to avoid dairy. Let me know what you think!

About Raj

I’m trained as a pharmacist, but my passion lies in changing people’s mental and physical health through amazing food… and laughter. I’ll laugh at my own jokes even if you don’t.
I love food. Lust may be a more appropriate word. Prepare to get your Paleo-induced drool-on!

Oh yeah for sure…
These are pretty quick and easy especially if you make the salsa ahead of time and if you freeze the beef/mushrooms in a zip lock bag in advance. Buy a Costco size beef, mix in some mushrooms and seasoning, and divide in freezer bags. They thaw fast and then you’re able to put it all together as a meal after work no problem.

This was an awesome hit at my dinner party today! Cant wait to see more! Everyone loved them, healthy and filling. I used butter, regardless of the calories and added some cumin and lemon juice to my mince. 🙂 Thanks!

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